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Specialist consultants have arrived in the industry: Kloepfel Group named “Best Consultants” for the ninth year in a row Düsseldorf, 14.03.2024 – Since 2014, the “Best Consultants” award from brand eins and Statista has highlighted how important specialist consultancies are for the economy. Management consultancies with a special focus and outstanding expertise for special cases are increasingly being considered by consulting clients in the selection process and are receiving greater recognition. This is also reflected in the Kloepfel Group’s award for “Best Consultants” – for the ninth time in a row. In the “Purchasing / Supply Chain Management” category, the…
24-hour negotiation service against insolvency in medium-sized businesses KfW: Companies feel a heavy strain on liquidity Radical savings service in purchasing against insolvency Renegotiate supplier offers within 24 hours Five- to six-digit savings per year According to the second representative KfW special survey published on Friday (19.06.2020), a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises face payment bottlenecks for annual sales of up to 500 million euros. A new radical savings service from the Kloepfel Group purchasing consultancy is therefore helping companies to achieve immediate savings when purchasing goods and services. The aim is to combat the insolvency of the…
In an interview Heiko Ziegler, managing director and owner of KOLIBRI GmbH and Karin Jagersberger, managing director of KOLIBRI GmbH, relate about the joint purchasing optimization project with Kloepfel Consulting. They also provide insights into the special, sustainable corporate management of KOLIBRI GmbH. What are the biggest challenges for your purchasing department? Our biggest challenge is the large number of suppliers in our portfolio in order to be able to cover as many of our customers’ needs as possible. This ranges from 30 ballpoint pen manufacturers to 10 cup manufacturers, all of whom in turn offer different article models. The…
Raw materials became significantly cheaper HWWI total index fell by 6.1% (US dollar basis) Crude oil prices fell by 6.3 % Industrial raw materials index fell by 9.5 % (Hamburg, 17 September 2019) In August, the HWWI commodity price index fell by an average of 6.1% (in euros: -5.3%) compared with the previous month. The overall index was at a level of 105.9 points (in euros: 105.6 points) and thus reached the level of September 2017. Falling prices were observed for all commodity groups. The index for energy raw materials fell by 5.8 % (in euros: -5.0 %). The index…
RS Components is a trademark of Electrocomponents plc. We supply more than 500,000 industrial and electronics products from over 2,500 leading manufacturers and offer a wide range of value-added services. With offices in 32 countries, we deliver more than 50,000 packages a day. We support customers throughout the entire product life cycle. Starting with innovation and technical support at the development stage, we contribute to shortening time-to-market, increasing productivity at the manufacturing stage, reducing procurement costs and optimizing inventory towards the end of the product lifecycle. We offer our customers tailor-made product and service offerings that are essential to the…
Interview with Egor Kozlov from GFE Solutions What is GFE Solutions service? Kozlov: We at GFE Solutions offer engineering services. We provide our customers from various industries with a remote service. We support technical departments with our designers, analysts and programmers from Ukraine. Which professional background do you and your team have? Kozlov: I am an engineer and have a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. After my work as a engineer I became CEO of a machine factory for the production of off-road vehicles. Our team consists of qualified and experienced engineers from various fields. Some have experience in mechanical…
Take advantage of the current situation Reading time 5 minutes Now or never: Managing directors should use the economic downturn to prepare their company for the future. Slimmed-down order books are also unleashing manpower to give companies time to focus more on innovation, digitization and other strategic issues. You can finance your future program through significant savings in purchasing. After all, purchasing has been neglected during peak periods. Seller markets become buyer markets The economic situation of many companies deteriorated significantly in the first quarter of 2019. This has led to a surplus supply and buyer markets and also applies…
Fourth Party Logistics „at its best“ After Accenture invented the term 4PL in the mid-90’s, the business model did not develop much in the following years. In the past few years however, everyone has been talking about 4PL and large parts of the cargo loading industry in Europe have started focusing on this type of outsourcing. Nevertheless, there are very few 4PL service providers around because established logistics companies do not have independent and free access to the market due to their assets and competitors, which means they cannot offer their clients individual best-in-class solutions. Because of this fact, Kloepfel…
The amount of operational tasks in purchasing does not allow for renegotiations or strategic optimizations? Suppliers with a discount rate of 0 percent are accumulating and the overview of payment terms has been lost for a long time? This scenario is a reality in many purchasing departments and ensures that valuable savings potential remains untapped. The reason for this is often inadequate or even missing condition management. Thereby, companies could increase their own liquidity and improve their cash flow by increasing the discount rate and extending the payment terms. In practice, however, buyers rarely have time to apply appropriate condition…
British companies are preparing Companies in the UK appear to be preparing for an unregulated Brexit: According to a report by Timocom, the freight and vehicle exchange, British companies have massively increased their inventories. As a result, the number of deliveries of goods to the UK has increased considerably. Compared to the same period last year, the number of truck transports from all over Europe to Great Britain more than doubled in the first quarter of 2019 by 112 percent. This is the result of the quarterly Timocom Transport Barometer figures collected by the IT company, which examine the development…
Düsseldorf, April 15, 2019 – For the fourth time in a row, Kloepfel Consulting GmbH has received the “Best Consultant” award, which honors the best management consultancies in Germany every year. The award is presented every year in April by the business magazine brand eins and the statistics portal Statista. The nominated companies are selected on the basis of recommendations from other consultants and customers. On the basis of a detailed two-part survey, first consultants are interviewed as industry representatives and then company representatives as customers. More than 1,800 partners and employees of management consultancies completed the questionnaire and evaluated…
Import and export of chemical products A customs inspection can quickly become very expensive. Anyone who disregards regulations is threatened with fines, criminal proceedings and the elimination of customs facilities. Thereby the devil is in the detail. We show you how to manage customs issues efficiently and in accordance with the rules. Many EU and national customs regulations must be observed when importing and exporting goods. All new regulations must be observed by companies on their own responsibility, otherwise fines and criminal proceedings may be imposed. The import and export process should therefore be set up in accordance with the…
How does a purchasing consultant actually work for medium-sized businesses? The task of the purchasing consultants is to make profits visible in the supply chains and thus to raise the value of yield. In addition to reducing purchase prices, for example through renegotiations, the purchasing consultant also asks if necessary: What does a product really cost? It is perhaps obvious that a factory machine, for example, costs far more than the mere purchase: Technical inspection, maintenance, repairs, logistics, insurance and other items can be added. But there are also costs along the entire supply chain that can be unnecessarily high.…